Medieval Manuscripts Provenance

I don't think that I had ever heard of Stephano Bardini [ Wikipedia ] until Laura Zabeo kindly told me that a couple of the illumination...

I mentioned last week that -- until I got side-tracked -- I intended to discuss some ideas put forward by Christopher de Hamel in the Introd...

Regular readers will know how often the backs of leaves and cuttings provide vital information. There may be a significant attribution (e.g....

In a previous post  in January last year, I discussed a group of cuttings that seem to come from the Dominican nunnery at Zurich, and I laid...

In the 1990s I catalogued a 13th-century Bible with varied and interesting indications of provenance, including an inscription "Zion MS...

A number of end-of-month deadlines mean that I again fail to write blog this weekend, but I have added a list of leaves to my Membra disiect...

The so-called St Albans Bible (shown above) was made in Paris in the 1320s or 1330s. The earliest certain record of its existence is when it...